KYIV, Nov 20 – An ally of former Prime Minister Arseniy Yatseniuk is accused of embezzling $17.29 million through controversial transaction while importing uranium from Kazakhstan, officials said Tuesday.

KYIV, Nov 20 – Ukrainian intelligence service and computer emergency response team detected a new strain of computer virus targeting computers at government agencies, perhaps indicating an imminent attack.

KYIV, Nov 17 – Acting NBU governor Yakiv Smolii and Board Chairman of Raiffeisen Bank Aval Volodymyr Lavrenchuk are among candidates to the post of the governor of the National Bank of Ukraine (NBU), Ihor Kononenko, First Deputy Head of the Petro Poroshenko Bloc, said.

KIEV, Nov. 16 - Ukrainian investigators fear corruption probes could get buried because the national anti-corruption bureau will soon be flooded by thousands of old cases and recently passed legislation could further hobble their work, Reuters reported.

KYIV, Nov. 19 - Mikheil Saakashvili, the former governor of Ukraine’s Odesa region, told a protest rally in Kyiv that he is ready to “create a new government of Ukraine” and to become the country’s prime minister, RFE/RL reported.

KYIV, Nov 16 – Head of the Delegation of the European Union (EU) to Ukraine Hugues Mingarelli said that in the past three years the EU has provided EUR 12 billion to Ukraine, including EUR 3.4 billion of marcofinancial assistance.

KYIV, Nov 17 – The U.S. Senate has approved the bill on the "U.S. budget for 2018 on the needs of national defense," which contains permission to allocate $350 million to provide security assistance to Ukraine, the Ukrainian embassy in the United States said.

KYIV, Nov 17 - The number of Ukrainians who were skeptical about the reform of the health care system in the country in September 2017 shrank by 9% compared to August, according to the Monitoring of the Perception of Reform Progress in September 2017, which was conducted by Kantar TNS and the National Reform Council.

KIEV, Nov. 18 - Parliament Speaker Oleksandr Turchynov met with Norwegian Prime Minister Erna Solberg in Kiev on Tuesday and discussed reverse gas supplies from Europe to Ukraine, the press service of the Ukrainian parliament has reported.

KIEV, Nov. 18 – President Petro Poroshenko and German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier at a recent meeting in Kiev discussed the possibility of holding talks in the "Weimar format" to settle the situation in the east of Ukraine.